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UPDATED: Exchange 2010 – Move mailbox to new AD account

At work we are getting ready to create new user accounts for everyone and move their mailbox from the current AD account to the new account. The reason for this is a bit lengthy, but a big reason is people have been granted permissions based on their AD account rather than by group membership. So by switching AD accounts we can clean things up a bit. Currently the format of our usernames is first initial last name (example: John Doe is JDoe), and we will be changing to a first name dot last name format (example: John.Doe).…

July 10, 2013ericExchange, PowerShell

PowerShell ISE on Windows 8

I’ve just started using the PowerShell ISE recently and started to really like the ability to type some commands and then run the code and test. So I was a little disappointed to find out that Windows 8 doesn’t have an icon for it on the the Start screen by default. You can however find…

February 27, 2013ericMicrosoft, PowerShell

PowerShell and ActiveMQ

We have a project going on at work that requires us to take gather specific information about users from Active Directory and get it into another system. We already use PowerShell to create all of our new user accounts so we wanted to stick with that. However, the other system we have to get the information into requires us to write the AD information to an ActiveMQ queue. The preferred format for this information is XML. So I was asked to come up with a way to accomplish this.…

February 27, 2013ericMicrosoft, PowerShell